Pavel Ivanovich Kharitonenko
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Pavel Ivanovich Charitonenko ( Russian Павел Иванович Харитоненко , Ukrainian Павло Іванович Харитоненко Pawlo Iwanowytsch Charytonenko * December 24, 1852 . Jul / 5. January 1853 greg. In Sumy , † 1914 in Nataljewka , Rajon Krasnokutsk , Kharkov Governorate ) was a Ukrainian - Russian Entrepreneur , sugar manufacturer and patron .
Life
Kharitonenko, the only son of the sugar factory owner Ivan Gerasimowitsch Kharitonenko , was taken on by his father early on in the management of the family business, which included beet sugar factories , a sugar refinery and forestry operations with a central office in Sumy. Kharitonenko modernized the factories and rounded off the company by purchasing land and other businesses in Kachanivka . He was a member of the Russian Sugar Manufacturers Association and Vice President of the Sugar Manufacturers Association. He participated in many companies, he that society for the construction of the railway from Belgorod to Sumy and the Sumy Engineering headed repairers. In 1907 the Pavlov refinery in Sumy was destroyed by fire. In 1914 he founded the national refinery syndicate . In 1914 the company was valued at 60 million rubles, and the State Bank had the highest credit line of 9 million rubles.
Kharitonenko was one of Russia's most important patrons . He founded one of the largest Russian painting collections and headed the Moscow department of the Russian Music Society . He financed the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi monument in Kiev . In Sumy in 1899, with half a million rubles, he built the building for a new cadet corps , which in 1918 became the Sumy Artillery College , as well as a bridge over the Sumka. He donated to educational institutions and churches, and gave scholarships to Ukrainian students at the Moscow Conservatory . He was an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and first chairman of the Society of Friends of the Rumyantsev Museum . He was appointed to the Real Council of State (4th class ) and accepted into the hereditary nobility .
Kharitonenko lived mostly in Moscow. His house at Sofiskaya Nabereschnaja 14 (now the Embassy of the United Kingdom ) was built by the architect Vasily Gerassimowitsch Zalessky 1891-1893, while the interior was designed in 1911 by Fyodor Ossipowitsch Schechtel . 1911–1913 Charitonenko had the new manor house Nataljewka built on his father's country estate according to the project of Alexei Viktorovich Shtusev . The jewel of the country estate was the Church of the Savior Transfiguration , which was built by Alexei Mikhailovich Ruchlyadev according to Shtusev's plans and set up as an icon museum . Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew , Sergei Timofejewitsch Konjonkow , Alexander Iwanowitsch Savinow and Iwan Gavrilowitsch Blinow took over the interior decoration, while the mosaic on the entrance wall was made after a drawing by Nicholas Roerich . Charitonenko financed the construction of the Trinity Cathedral in Sumy, which began in 1901, based on the project by the local architect Carl Scholz and the project for the mosaic floor by Alexei Viktorovich Shtusev. Charitonenko's death interrupted construction. After the First World War and the Russian Civil War , the building was used as a museum and house of organ music . It was not until 1996 that part of the cathedral was opened to the public.
According to his wishes, Charitonenko was buried next to his father in Sumy in the cemetery at the Peter and Paul Church.
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Charitonenko's widow Wera Andrejewna née Bakejewna (1859–1923), a noblewoman from Kursk , led the company after the death of her husband until the October Revolution , when she was expropriated. She then left Moscow with her daughters Jelena and Natalja and her son Ivan to settle in the Ukraine at her country estate Nataljewka. In 1918 she emigrated to France with her children . Her son Ivan died in 1926 or 1927 in Munich by suicide . Charitonenko's painting collection was divided between the Tretyakov Gallery and the Rumyantsev Museum and then the Pushkin Museum in 1922–1925 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e А. Козлов: К 175-летию со дня рождения И. Г. Аритоненко . In: Сумское обозрение . No. 41 , October 10, 1997, p. 263 ( mke.su [accessed March 12, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d e Харитоненко (семья) (accessed March 12, 2018).
- ↑ Светлана Скорик: Харитоненко: промышленник и меценат (accessed March 12, 2018).
- ↑ Свято-Троицкий собор в г. Сумы (accessed March 13, 2018).
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| SURNAME | Charitonenko, Pavel Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Харитоненко, Павел Иванович (Russian); Харитоненко, Павло Іванович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Russian entrepreneur, sugar manufacturer and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sumy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1914 |
| Place of death | Nataljewka , Krasnokutsk Raion , Kharkov Governorate |